The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-06-05
About that top dressing between the


About that top dressing between the
railroad tracks The Mayor induced the
World of one day last week to make a
great "spread" over the manner in which
be had compelled President Thurstun of
the Jersey City and Bergen Point road to
fill il the car tracks with sand instead Of
zinc dust; and in his communication h Q al
leges that he has not only brought about a
great reform in the matter of dust, but has
compelled the railroad company to live up
\ to its contract" Perhaps the Mayor will
tell US where that contract is to be found!
The railroad company derives its rights to
I ture That says nothing about filing: and
/ the Mayer can scarcely have allowed himself
h to run away with the notion that city cr-
dnance, if any there bs, can modify law
\ tract on the subject at all. The railroad
|company, being unrestricted in the matter,
chose the zinc dust, not because it
was the cheaper but because it was the
better for the purpose. A barrel of that
filing weighs more heavily than barrel of
sand filing; and the presumption is that it
IS less apt to fly from the ground. That it
was not adapted for cheapness is shown by
the fact that the company instead of filing
lin at Bayonne with sand they had at hard,
carried the zinc dust away from Lafs yette
10 Bayonne to do their filling there at con-
siderable expense. But then Mayor
cleveland wanted to make great reform
By throwing more dust than usual into the
pupular eye. President Thurston was will
ling to help the reform along, and so con-
9sented to use the filing the Mayor recon-
nended -!
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The. acqu.ttal of the Pinkerton detec-
lives who were charged with having killed
title Tommy Hogan at the Delaware &
1ackawanna breast works, during the
strike ezctements Of last winter was almost
o be expected. The State presented a
trong case against heehy; but then there
5as enough doubt about his identity to
lstify his release. No man could consci-
ntiously swear on all the evidence in the
Iase that it was he who fred. His admis-
ion, however, that he was on the breast
FORKS at the time Of the shooting seems to
1dicate that he may have been of the fir
ag party, as several witnesses testified
e was. One thing is beyond all question.
e Sheeny was not of the men who fred he
yas at least party to an ingeniously con-
rived plan on the part of the Pinkerton
aen at the decks to facilitate the escape of
he guilty man or men. There seems to
ave been rush from the camp of the
Tugs to the trestle from which the shots
'ere fred, with the purpose of befogging
illnesses as to the identity of the men
no vera responsible for the unnecessary
nd inexcusable homicide. 1t is to be re-
retted that no means lay within reach of
le State to compel Sheehy to say who
ere on the breast works at the time of
lie shooting. If he had been convicted
j suspicion, it is a safe wager that he
Duld have produced the guilty man for
te purpose of generating himself. We
y heartily sorry the fellow has been al
owed to escape.
H
1.-THE New York Eveniag Post and the New
iork Times treated the hanging of Disque
It'll the little consideration to which it was
asitled In neither of these papers was the
ory accorded the dignity of even double
CAD, and both gave the briefest possible
morris Of it. The notoriety murderer